As holli said, there is nothing wrong within the lines you posted. Ist this a command line app or do you try to do this from within CGI or mod_perl program?

Try a small modification on your code:

  open HELLO, ">file.txt" or die "$!";
  select HELLO or die "$!";
  print "hi !";
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and respond to this thread with the error message shown.

Regards

mwa

open HELLO, ">>file.text" or die "open failed: $!";
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As for the compilation error, you'd have to show us the actual text of the error message. If the message mentions a particular line number, you'd have to show us your code in such a way that we can tell what line that is. (Use "<code>" and "</code>" around the text of the script.)

hi,
I am assuming that you want to open a file and print "HI" in that if that is the case
do this way
#!/usr/bin/perl
open HELLO, ">file.txt";
select HELLO;
print HELLO "hi !";

I am getting a compilation error. Can anyone tell me where i am going wrong ?

Which error? See How (Not) To Ask A Question. Selecting the error and pasting it into the composition box is easy.

Are you sure it is perl which is throwing the error? Maybe you are invoking that script as is, and so bash (or whatever shell you have) gets it? Maybe it is no error from perl, but from your shell?

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